Why did the cattle industry become a big business in the late 1800s?

There may be a "gender gap" in political party preference in the United States, with women more likely than men to prefer Democratic candidates. A political scientist selects a large sample of registered voters, both men and women. She asks each voter whether they voted for the Democratic or the Republican candidate in the last congressional election. Is this study an experiment? Why or why not? What are the explanatory and response variables?

• Write the definitions of the functions to overload the increment, decrement, arithmetic, and relational operators as nonmembers of the class rectangleType.
• Write a test program that tests various operations on the class rectangleType.

Solve the formula for the indicated variable.

$$P = \frac { R - C } { n } ; R$$

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Cofer opens her essay with a story about an incident in her life. Considering her subject matter and her audience, is this an effective opening strategy? Why or why not?

How might business culture influence the motivational methods adopted by managers?

A business leader’s job is to achieve their company’s goals by using their people wisely.

What is the current phase of the business cycle? What evidence shows this phase?

Look at the sample means shown below.

Explain how to obtain the following interpretation for the interaction from the sample means: "For females there is no race effect on ideology. For males, whites are more conservative by about half an ideology category, on the average."

An instructor standardizes her midterm and final each semester so the class average is 50 and the SD is 10 on both tests. The correlation between the tests is around 0.50. One semester, she took all the students who scored around 30 at the midterm, and gave them special tutoring. On average, they gained 10 points on the final. Can this be explained by the regression effect? Answer yes or no, and explain briefly.

A research was created to contrast two ads for energy drinks. Each participant was shown the commercials in random order and asked to select the better one. Commercial A was selected by 44 out of 100 women and 79 out of 140 men. Give an estimate of the difference in gender proportions that favored Commercial A. Also construct a large sample $95 \%$ confidence interval for this difference.

Determine whether the following series converge or diverge using the properties and tests introduced in the sections. $\sum_{k=4}^{\infty} \frac{3}{(k-3)^{4}}$

How do households and business firms interact in the product and resource markets?

Use the five-step strategy for solving word problems to find the number or numbers. When a number is decreased by 30% of itself the result is 28. What is the number?